Just host your own instance.
Others are luckily always free to block you, but you do not need to worry about losing your account.
There is not really any downside to hosting your own instance either, thanks to federation, you get to participate in the wider Lemmy community as an equal member.
I feel like I'm going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks, how it needs too much understanding of maths, how it takes too long,...
Can someone please confirm: you just look, for a fraction of a second, at the clock face and know the time, right?
Learning to read the clock was like... A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.
Actually.. Just tried it. I am on 2025.10, so newer than what was mentioned there. It still does not understand any better than from what I remember. Bummer.
But hey, at least the acknowledge that there's the need for something between dumb pattern matching and an LLM.
Holy shit YES!
That article is from yesterday, and the relevant section is: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/10/22/voice-chapter-11/#improved-sentence-matching
Awesome to see improvements there. Thanks a lot for linking!
Oh wow, awesome!
Sounds like you never wanted to be friends, just fuck them.
I'm almost sorry to be blunt, but...
Women don't want to be chased. You're a misogynist who has reduced women to "people to have sex with" in your own mind.
If you change that, you gain the possibility of actual connections, including intimacy, with them; if you don't, you don't. Either way it's up to you if you want the status quo to continue or to improve.
Thank you for your sacrifice :D
While I don't like it, it's not hidden either:
https://bentopdf.com/privacy.html
There should definitely be an option to disable this for self-hosting, but if it's just a counter for how often each tool is used by all users combined... Eh...
(Stirling also has something similar)
Prisoner Of War:
OK, so what you want is for other people to volunteer their time and money to keep an instance running. That, by itself, is honestly fine, and many people are happy to do so.
But you then also do not want to play by their rules. That part is not fine.